Forest stands surface greenhouse gas fluxes play a pivotal role in the global carbon balance and global climate change. Forests in central subtropical is an important and special vegetation type in China. The typical forest types including Chinese fir plantation, Pinus massoniana + Lthocarpus glaber mixed forest, and Cyclobalanopsis glauca + Lithocarpus glaber mixed evergreen broad-leaved forest were selected for the sampling plots using static chamber technique and gas chromatography analysis of soil surface greenhouse gases (CH_4 and N_2O). The local environmental factors were recorded including soil surface temperature, soil temperature at 5 cm depth, air temperature, air temperature in the static chamber, soil moisture content in the field. And soil total organic carbon and soil total organic nitrogen were measured in the laboratory. The relationship between the greenhouse gas flux and environmental factors was analyzed by using the canonical correlation analysis (CCA) method. The principal component analysis (PCA) was carried out to investigate the dominant factors in all the environmental factors. Some conclusions were drawn as the followings: (a) in general, soil surface greenhouse gases in the forest stands were influenced by multiple environmental factors and correlationship between greenhouse gases and environmental factors was statistically significant at the level of 0.05 which varied with the forest types, (b) temperature was the dominant factor among the environmental factors which affects soil surface greenhouse gases, especially temperature at soil surface and 5cm depth, (c) the rest of physical environmental factors, such as soil moisture, soil carbon and nitrogen content, slope position also played an important role in greenhouse gases flux but the correlation coefficients varied with forest types, (d) the biological factor as forest types caused a statistical difference in soil surface greenhouse gases flux (P < 0.05), and (e) seasonal dynamics in soil surface greenhouse gases flux was significant in the forest types.